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Steven Aguiar is a senior engineer in the Undersea Warfare (USW) Combat Systems department and program manager for the Virtual Undersea Battlespace program at the Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Centers. He holds several leadership roles across the Department of the Navy's Modeling & Simulation (M&S) community including M&S lead for Visualization, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Over the last five years he has focused his efforts on the role of M&S technologies in wargaming, working with various US Fleet commands to prototype and deploy innovative wargaming environments. In 2008 he also pioneered the exploration and subsequent adoption of Virtual World technologies across the US Navy enterprise. He has an MS and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Ryszard Antkiewicz is an associate professor at the Cybernetics Faculty of Military University of Technology and director of Operations Research and Decision Support Department. He holds a PhD and MSc in computer science from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, and habilitation from Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences. His scientific interest is focused on modeling and performance evaluation of computer systems and computer networks, application of quantitative methods in computer security, combat modeling and simulation, mathematical methods of decision support. He has taken part in many scientific projects connected with combat simulation, artificial intelligence application in combat decision support system, capability‐based planning of armed forces development, cyber warfare modeling, terrorist threat prediction, crisis management. He published more than 100 peer‐reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers.

Jeff Appleget is a retired army colonel who served 20 of his 30 years on active duty as an operations research analyst. His first analysis tour was at the U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency (CAA; now Center for Army Analysis), working on the validation of the artillery module of the FORCEM simulation and using CEM to model Operation Desert Storm, which earned him the CAA Director’s Award for Excellence and his first Dr. Wilbur B. Payne Memorial Award for Excellence in Analysis. He served as the director of the TRADOC Analysis Center‐Monterey, supervising the creation of advanced simulation techniques and models, to include leading the Land Warrior Training Initiative project that converted a COTS first‐person shooter (Delta Force 2) into a training simulation for the US Army’s Land Warrior program. He served at the TRADOC Analysis Center‐WSMR, supervising the use of the combat simulation CASTFOREM and the human‐in‐the‐loop simulation JANUS for the Future Combat Systems (FCS) Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), earning his second Wilbur Payne Award. He served at TRAC‐FLVN, where he continued supervising FCS AoA update analyses using Vector‐In‐Command (VIC) at FLVN and CASTFOREM and JANUS at WSMR. He then finished his army career as the deputy to the TRAC director where he was one of the lead architects of the TRAC Irregular Warfare Tactical Wargame, earning the 2011 Army Modeling and Simulation Team Award (Analysis). He has been a senior lecturer in the NPS Operations Research Faculty since 2009. He teaches the Wargaming Applications, Combat Modeling, and Advanced Wargaming Applications resident courses at NPS. He also teaches week‐long Basic Analytic Wargaming Mobile Education Team (MET) courses for US and international sponsors around the world. In 2016, he earned the Richard W. Hamming Faculty Award for Interdisciplinary Achievement. Along with Dr. Rob Burks, Jeff directs the activities of the NPS Wargaming Activity Hub.

Curtis L. Blais is on the research faculty in the Naval Postgraduate School’s Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation (MOVES) Institute, Monterey, California. He holds a PhD in MOVES from the Naval Postgraduate School and bachelor and master of science degrees in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Blais has over 45 years of experience in all phases of modeling and simulation development, from requirements definition through test and employment of simulation systems for training and analysis. He has served in various levels of software engineering management and develops and delivers modeling and simulation education. His research interests include agent‐based simulation, interoperability across command and control systems, simulation systems, and unmanned systems, and semantic web technologies for knowledge representation. Dr. Blais serves in various positions in the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) and the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS).

Karsten Brathen is a chief scientist at FFI, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway. He holds a siv. ing. degree in engineering cybernetics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. His research interests include modeling and simulation methods applied in support of training, operations, systems engineering, and concept development and experimentation. He has published more than 100 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and scientific‐technical reports. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Society for Modeling and Simulation (SCS) and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

Paul K. Davis is a retired principal researcher at RAND (still active as an adjunct) and a professor in the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research has included strategic planning (particularly defense planning), strategy, deterrence theory, arms control, and advanced methods of modeling and analysis, notably multiresolution modeling, pioneering work on exploratory analysis under uncertainty, and semi‐qualitative methods of modeling social‐behavioral phenomena such as terrorism and insurgency, and heterogeneous information fusion. Dr. Davis received a BS in chemistry from the University of Michigan and a PhD in theoretical chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses, the State Department, the Department of Defense (as a senior executive), and – since 1981 – for the RAND Corporation. He reviews for or is associate editor of multiple scholarly journals and has served on numerous national panels.

Armin Fügenschuh is full professor for engineering mathematics and numerics of optimization at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus (BTU). He studied mathematics from 1995 to 2000 in Oldenburg, Germany, and at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. In 2000, he became a research associate at the Darmstadt University of Technology where he received a doctorate degree in 2005. After that he held postdoc positions in Darmstadt, Berlin, Atlanta (Georgia, USA), and Erlangen. Between 2013 and 2017 he was an associate professor at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces (HSU) in Hamburg. His main research interests are linear and nonlinear mixed‐integer programming and their applications, with a focus on operations research problems from engineering, transportation, and logistics. His further interest is in wargaming. He gave several courses at the HSU on board game conflict simulations as well as computer‐based conflict simulation tools. He is a member of several academic societies (GOR, SIAM, DMV, EMS, VDI). His work was awarded with several academic prizes, such as the EURO Excellence in Practice Award (2016) or a Dissertation Award of the German OR Society.

Richard Haberlin is a senior principal computer scientist and chief engineer of the Modeling, Simulation, Experimentation and Analysis Technical Center at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA. He holds a PhD and MS in operations research from George Mason University and a BS in ocean engineering from the US Naval Academy. His research interests include inferential reasoning and decision support aided through interactive visualization. He is also evaluating application of reusable frameworks with combat simulations to support rapid integration of multiple algorithmic solutions including mixed‐integer linear programming and artificial intelligence. He leverages 20 years of navy operational and staff experience to produce tailored, relevant, and defensible analyses informing executive‐level decisions across a wide breadth of government organizations. He serves on the editorial board of ASCE Infrastructure Systems and holds membership with the MITRE Veteran’s Council and the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA).

Dean S. Hartley III is the principal of Hartley Consulting. Previously he was a senior member of the Research Staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hartley graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Wofford College in 1968, majoring in mathematics and foreign languages. He received his PhD in piecewise linear topology from the University of Georgia in 1973. Dr. Hartley is a director of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), a past vice president of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and a past president of the Military Applications Society (MAS). Dr. Hartley has published An Ontology for Unconventional Conflict, Unconventional Conflict: A Modeling Perspective, Predicting Combat Effects, contributed 10 chapters to eight other books, and written more than 150 articles and technical documents. Hartley received the Koopman Prize for best publication in military operations research in 1994 and the Steinhardt Prize for lifetime achievement in operations research in 2013.

Alejandro (Andy) Hernandez is an associate professor in the Systems Engineering Department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California. He holds a BS in civil engineering from the U.S. Military Academy, a MS and PhD in operations research from NPS, and a master’s in strategic studies from the Army War College. He is a retired army officer whose assignments include Director of Analysis & Assessment – Iraq, and Chief of the Warfighting Analysis Division in the Department of the Army Programs and Resources Directorate. Dr. Hernandez teaches courses in capability engineering, fundamentals of systems engineering, system suitability, probability and statistics, and research methods. He serves as the deputy director for the Simulation Experiments and Efficient Designs Center and has focused some of his most recent studies on codifying the application of modeling and simulation techniques in mission engineering. His continued research efforts combine scenarios, computerized simulation experiments, systems analysis, and systems engineering methodologies to improve decision‐making for the design, development, operations, and management of complex systems.

M. Fatih Hocaoğlu is an associate professor at Istanbul Medeniyet (Civilization) University in Turkey and a scientist in simulation, artificial intelligence, and mathematical programming scientist at Agena Information and Defense Technologies Ltd. that he is also the founder of. He holds his PhD in industrial engineering in the area of simulation and qualitative reasoning. His research interests include modeling and simulation, reasoning technologies, operational research (optimization theory), simulation and agent programming languages. He is the designer and developer of a simulation and agent programming language called AdSiF (Agent driven Simulation Framework). He developed several simulation projects in defense domain. Some of these are land‐based air defense simulations, simulation for C4ISR systems, marine warfare simulation, and simulations for civil sectors. He is a member of the Operational Research Society in Turkey. He received multiple awards from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.

Jan Hodicky is a modeling and simulation advisor at the NATO Headquarter Supreme Allied Commander Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia. He earned his PhD in informatics and computer science with a special focus on modeling and simulation of autonomous systems. He is an author of around 100 papers in international journals/conferences, co‐author of the patent of Virtual Reality in Command Control Systems with 23 years of service in the Czech Armed Forces. His research efforts focus on applied modeling and simulation to military problem domains. He has been the head of the Aviation Technology Department at the University of Defense in Brno in 2019 and a member of strategic management in Defense Department at the Centre for the Security and Military Strategic Studies University of Defense in 2018. From 2013 to 2017 he was chairing the Doctrine Education & Training Branch at the NATO Modelling and simulation Centre of Excellence in Rome.

Reiner K. Huber is emeritus professor at the German Armed Forces University Munich (UniBwM) where he held the chair of Operations Research and Systems Analysis (with emphasis on defense and security issues) from 1975 to 2000. Prior to this appointment he was head of the systems studies division of IABG which he had joined in 1964 as an analyst after three years of military service in the German Air Force. IABG was the German Defense Ministry’s modeling and analysis institution founded in the early 1960s to support weapon systems and operations assessment, and defense planning. His research at UniBwM included, among others, exploratory analysis for improving military stability in Central Europe between NATO and WP and, after the disintegration of the WP and USSR, the stability of multipolar defense arrangements on a regional and global scale. His recent work is focused on command and control as an invited expert to a NATO project. Dr. Huber received his academic education at the Technical University Munich (TUM) and, as a Fulbright scholar, at the University of Texas in Austin. He was awarded a doctorate (equivalent to a PhD) in 1970 from TUM in aerospace engineering.

Leonie Johannsmann is a lieutenant in the German Air Force. With a successfully completed officer training she started her study of industrial engineering at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg in 2013. She wrote her master’s thesis, during a trimester abroad, at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA. In her master’s thesis she optimized the spare parts inventory for a military deployment with methods of operations research. Her work was awarded with two academic prizes: the DWT Student Prize of the German Society for Defense Technology and a Best Paper Award of the 12th NATO OR&A Conference 2018. In 2017, she started her pilot training for cargo airplanes for the air force.

Ambrose Kam is a fellow in Cyber at Lockheed Martin and chief engineer in Cyber Operations Analysis, Rotary & Mission Systems (RMS) Cyber Innovations in Moorestown, New Jersey. He has MSc degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Cornell University, and a BSc from the University at Buffalo. He is a specialist in cyber risk assessment and agile methods and pioneered the application of modeling and simulation techniques to cybersecurity. He collaborated with MIT (School of Engineering), Georgia Tech, Air Force Academy and West Point to develop Cyber Risk Assessment methodology. In 2017, he won the Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) award for his technical contributions and leadership.

William J. Lademan is a professional wargamer with extensive experience in the field that includes more than four decades of practice, research, and participation. Graduating from the United States Naval Academy, he received a commission in the United States Marine Corps. During his service, he held various command and staff positions, which included high‐level planning positions. He also attended the Naval War College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. After service, he obtained a PhD in chemistry from Lehigh University and spent over a decade in academia and the chemical industry before joining a consulting firm as a wargame designer. Currently, he is the technical director of the Wargaming Division, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, charged with the execution of the Wargaming Program in support of examining service concepts, combat development, and operational plans. He is also involved in the planning for the construction of the Marine Corps’ purpose‐built wargaming center and the development of the Next Generation Wargame it will facilitate. In support of realizing the Next Generation Wargame concept, he has formulated two principles of action allowing for the representation of warfighting functions and the manipulation of wargame information and is conducting research into the metrics necessary to define the efficient application of these principles in wargame design and execution.

Sönke Marahrens is the program director of the German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies, a cooperation between the Joint Forces Staff College and the University of the Armed Forces Hamburg. He is Colonel (GS) of the German Air Force and holds an MSc in computer science from the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich and a master of public administration from the Royal Canadian College in Kingston. His research interests include artificial intelligence, the Prussian Wargame as well Military Command & Control and leadership for the 21st Century including M&S decision support. He is an expert on the application of NATO Modelling and Simulation, OR and NATO and National CD&E. He has received multiple awards, including the Clausewitz Medal as well as the Artur K Cebrowski Award.

Sandra Matuszewski is a general staff officer in the German Air Force. Her job specialization in the air force is information technology. She studied social sciences and administrative law from 2005 to 2009 in Munich, Germany, at the University of the Federal Armed Forces. Between October 2009 and March 2010, she took part in the ISAF Mission in Afghanistan. From 2015 to 2017 she completed her master’s in military leadership and international security during the General Staff Officers Course at the Leadership Academy of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, where she studied wargaming and created the board game “Enhanced Luna Warrior.” She works at the Air Operations Center in Kalkar, Germany, where she is responsible for the CIS mission planning for the German Air Force.

Ole Martin Mevassvik is a principal scientist at FFI and project manager for M&S research. He received a siv. ing. degree in cybernetics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway in 1995. His main research interests are systems architecture and simulation interoperability with the focus on Command and Control to Simulation (C2SIM) interoperability. Ole Martin has participated in several national research projects and international activities on defense modeling and simulation. He has contributed to more than 80 peer‐reviewed conference and journal papers and scientific reports. Ole Martin Mevassvik has also acted as a consultant for the Norwegian Armed Forces in several simulator acquisition projects.

Daniel Müllenstedt studied mechanical engineering from 2011 to 2015 at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. He received the DWT‐Student Prize of the German Society for Defense Technology for his Master Thesis, and the Böttcher Prize for the Best Student of the Year 2016. In 2016 he became a maintenance officer at the Tactical Air Wing 71 “Richthofen” in Wittmund, Germany. After his training as a systems engineer for Eurofighter at AIRBUS Defence and Space in Manching, Germany in 2018, he was deployed as maintenance operations officer in the technical group of the Tactical Air Wing 71 “Richthofen.” Since 2019 he is a weapon system officer for the Eurofighter at the Air Force Forces Command in Cologne, Germany.

Andrzej Najgebauer is professor of computer and information systems and the chair of the Modelling and Simulation for Decision Support in Conflict and Crisis Situations Team at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. He is also Polish member of STO/NATO Modelling and Simulation Group. He held the position of Dean of Cybernetics Faculty and vice president of the University for scientific affairs. He holds MSc and PhD in computer science from the Military University of Technology of Poland. He also holds a doctor of science in computer science, decision support systems from Warsaw University of Technology. His scientific, professional, and educational activities are mainly focused on artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, designing of military decision support systems, threat prediction, wargames designing, cybersecurity and cyberwar. He was project leader of Polish Army Simulation System for CAXes and many Polish or international projects on DSS in the area of security and defense. He is the member of IFORS and member of Polish Society of Operations Research and Systems Analysis, vice president of Polish Society of Computer Simulation, the supervisor of 10 doctorates and general chair or co‐chair of many international scientific conferences in the area of MCIS and AI, and author of 5 books and over than 130 publications. He is a member of special group of analysts, who participated in the evaluation of possible results of international war games for eastern Europe. He is an expert in the Strategic Defense Review of Polish Armed Forces.

Ernest H. Page is the DARPA portfolio manager at The MITRE Corporation. Previously he served as chief engineer within the Modeling, Simulation, Experimentation and Analytics Technical Center, and founding Director of MITRE’s Simulation Experimentation and Analytics Lab (SEAL). He holds a PhD in computer science from Virginia Tech. With a research interest in simulation modeling methodology, and distributed systems, he has served as principal investigator on numerous government‐funded and Independent Research and Development (IR&D) projects. He has held a variety of senior advisory roles, including: technical advisor for the U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office, chief scientist for the U.S. Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) Modeling Architecture for Research and Experimentation (MATREX), and member of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Gaming, Exercising and Modeling and Simulation. Dr. Page has published over 50 peer‐reviewed articles in the areas of simulation modeling methodology, and parallel and distributed systems. He served as the chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM), the Board of Directors of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), and serves on the editorial boards of Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, and Journal of Simulation.

Dariusz Pierzchała is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Cybernetics at the Military University of Technology (MUT) in Warsaw, Poland. He graduated from MUT with a MSc degree in information systems. In 2002 he obtained PhD in simulation and decision support. He is also Polish member of STO/NATO Modelling and Simulation Group. He has been teaching a variety of subjects over the last 15 years, from computer engineering to modeling and simulation and knowledge management. With the beginning of 2013, on retiring from the Polish Armed Forces as Colonel, he assumed the position of civilian assistant professor and deputy director at the Institute of Computer and Information Systems. His scientific interests concern decision support systems, machine learning, and computer simulation in the domain of national security, defense and crisis management. He received multiple awards, individually and as a team member, including the NATO STO Scientific Achievement Award (2015).

Phillip E. Pournelle retired as commander from the US Navy after 26 years of service as a surface warfare officer. He served on cruisers, destroyers, amphibious ships, and an experimental high‐speed vessel. He served on the Navy Staff doing campaign analysis, at the Office of Secretary of Defense Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, and at the Office of Net Assessment. He is now the senior director for wargaming and analysis at the Long‐Term Strategy Group. He has a master of science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

Joseph Saur is currently working as a software engineer for Taurus TeleSYS on an R&D project supporting Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. He holds an MS/CS and a BS/CS from Old Dominion University, graduated w/distinction from the Naval War College, and a BS in biology from St. John's University. A wargamer for over 50 years, he has studied both wargaming and combat modeling academically, has taught multiple classes in computer science at a variety on institutions, including Georgia Tech, Regent University, and ECPI. He also taught courses in wargaming at the Marine Corps University and Marine Corps Warfighting Lab. He served as the government's assessment lead for the DARPA/JFCOM "Integrated Battle Command" project, which attempted to create an integrated set of models representing the entire Political, Military, Economic, Social, Infrastructure and Information (PMESII) spectrum, and the ability to postulate Diplomatic, Information, Military and Economic (DIME) Courses of Action (COA) in an attempt to predict (short‐term) potential multi‐dimensional outcomes.

Johannes Schmidt studied business mathematics from 2013 to 2018 at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany. Since 2018 he is a research associate at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus‐Senftenberg. He works in the field of mixed‐integer optimization with differential equation‐based constraints. He is particularly interested in the mission planning of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Rikke Amilde Seehuus is a senior scientist at FFI, Kjeller Norway. She holds a PhD in computer science and a MSc in mathematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, behavior modeling, and autonomous systems.

Mark Sisson is currently an operations research analyst with over 10 years’ experience at United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). As a graduate of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), a USSTRATCOM fellow and distinguished graduate from the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies Red Teaming School, he is engaged in USSTRATCOM plans analysis. In his previous life, he was an aviator specializing in electronic warfare (EW) with over 4500 hours (including combat) in bombers, reconnaissance, and foreign military sales. He is currently working on his doctorate in strategic security, where he is exploring how to combine wargames with other analytical tools.

Andreas Tolk is a senior principal chief scientist at the MITRE Corporation in Charlottesville Virginia, and adjunct full professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He holds a PhD and MSc in computer science from the University of the Federal Armed Forces of Germany. His research interests include computational and epistemological foundations and constraints of model‐based solutions in computational sciences and their application in support of model‐based systems engineering, including the integration of simulation methods and tools into the systems engineering education and best practices. This includes the application of simulation methods in support of command and control, wargaming, and training domains. He published more than 250 peer‐reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers, and edited 14 textbooks and compendia on systems engineering and modeling and simulation topics. He is a fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation (SCS) and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He received multiple awards, including distinguished contribution awards from SCS and ACM.

Charles Turnitsa is assistant professor in the Engineering and Computer Science Department at Regent University. He is the lead of the Computer Engineering program. He continues to do research work for the US Government, as a senior research scientist with Georgia Tech Research Institute. He holds a PhD in modeling and simulation, and MSc in electrical and computer engineering from Old Dominion University. He has been a wargamer, both as a hobbyist and a professional, for four decades. His research interests are in the application of combat modeling, the representation of knowledge within computer simulation systems, and the modeling of complex information. He has participated in numerous research projects related to the above areas, and other related areas, and continues to be active in both teaching and research. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Society for Modeling and Simulation (SCS). He has received numerous awards for his research contributions and remains a very active participant in the hobby wargaming field, currently serving as the president of the Old Dominion Military Society (the historical wargaming club of Southeast Virginia).

Paul Vebber, CDR, USNR (ret), leads wargaming efforts at the Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Centers. He has an MS in applied science – undersea warfare from the Naval Postgraduate School and a BS in history of science from the University of Wisconsin‐Madison. He is active in the wargaming communities of practice associated with the US Navy and the Military Operations Research Society. He is one of the instructors for the wargaming certificate course affiliated with MORS and Virginia Tech University, with nearly 40 years of wargaming experience in the military, contractor, government and hobby sectors. He was one of the founders of www.matrixgames.com and part of the team that won the 2000 Charles S. Roberts award for Best 20th Century Computer wargame for “Steel Panthers: World at War.” He is active in the Connections wargaming conference organizing committee and has participated as a player, umpire, or analyst in wargames sponsored by a variety of US Navy and DoD organizations for over 20 years.

Jorit Wintjes is senior lecturer in the History Department at Julius‐Maximilians‐Universität Würzburg, teaching in both the university’s History and Digital Humanities programs. He received a doctor’s degree and qualified as a professor in history. He studied classics and history and has published several books on ancient and nineteenth‐century military history. His current research interests include Roman naval history as well as the history of professional wargaming.

Sławomir Wojciechowski is lieutenant general in the Polish Army and has been the commander of Multinational Corps Northeast since September 2018. During his 35 years in the military, he served in a variety of Polish Army units and formations. He commanded the Air Defence regiment and later the Infantry brigade. Additionally, he served in key positions in Iraq and Afghanistan, while in parallel preparing and commanding the first Polish European Battlegroup. He has been assigned to several high‐level positions in the General Staff, including being department director responsible for strategy and defense planning in the Ministry of Defence. Before becoming Corps Commander, he served successfully on joint level as the deputy, and later as the commander of the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces. Educated in the Academy of the National Defence in Warsaw, the UK Joint Services and Command Staff College in Shrivenham, and the US Army War College, General Wojciechowski developed his scientific interests in the area of strategic thinking as well as the state security, defense and development strategies, successfully pursuing a PhD in this domain. He participates in the seminars and conferences covering issues pertaining to problems of geopolitics, military security and NATO or EU military activities.